curator’s choice
Eugene McCarthy and the 1968 Election
“Close Support” by Scott Long
Minneapolis Tribune, March 20, 1968.
On March 16, four days after McCarthy’s strong second in the New Hampshire primary, Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy also jumped into the ring. McCarthy supporters resented what they saw as
Kennedy’s opportunism in splitting the anti-​Vietnam War vote. Kennedy’s campaign was brief;
he was assassinated on June 4.
Scott Long (1917–1991) began his career in 1940 as a full-​time political cartoonist for the
St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1946 he became the editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis
Tribune and remained there until retirement in 1980. Over the course of his career, Long
received numerous awards for his work and was a founder and president of the Association of
American Editorial Cartoonists.
Cover, New York
Magazine
(vol. 1 no. 18)
August 5, 1968.
From the Eugene
McCarthy Papers,
Manuscript Collection.
Minnesota Historical
Society. The magazine
contains a lengthy
essay by Gloria Steinem
about the man “behind
the facade.”
The exhibition “Eugene McCarthy and the 1968
Presidential Election” is on view October 15,
2016 through January 22, 2017 at the James J.
Hill House Gallery. Photographs, campaign
literature, editorial cartoons, and material from
Eugene McCarthy’s personal papers will be
among the items on display.
Poster: Beat the Machine—Support Eugene, 1968.
Poster designed by Jane Wagner.
Under brutal pressure from critics, including McCarthy and Kennedy,
for the failing war in Vietnam, President Lyndon Johnson announced
on March 31, “I shall not seek, and will not accept” his party’s
nomination for another term as president. A month later, “machine”
candidate Hubert Humphrey (pictured) entered the race.
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